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Secret World of Arrietty director Hiromasa Yonebayashi will again be helming a Studio Ghibli adaptation of British children's novel with the revered animation house planning an anime movie based on Joan G.

I recently went to a cake shop, but when the time came to order, I said, "I'll have the soy sauce ramen with a side of fried dumplings. " Don't worry, I haven't lost my mind. I was just at a hot new sweets shop in Shinjuku called, Maplise, where t...

UNDER FACE/Den-on-Bu (Electro-Audio-Club) is a sub-unit of a Japanese pop idol group "SMILE GAKUEN. " Featuring three singers, NANAKO, HONOKA and ICHIGO. Finally, they released the 3rd single! It has been 9 months since their first live performan...

Along with an international site, Starchild has posted an official English subtitled promo for the anime adaptation of Houzuki no Reitetsu. Natsumi Eguchi's comedy manga follows the caustic aid to Enma Daiou/Yama, the king of Hell.

Originally airing in Japan in 2008 based off of the game franchise of the same name, Hulu has now added the first twenty-six episode of Inazuma Eleven to its service. Coming from Arait Multimedia, the series is getting release in both Spanish and ...

will also focus a lot on the explorative aspect of the game, with various terrains and landscapes to explore in the lands of Green Wood. Hikaru Kondo, producer of Japanese animation studio Ufotable, who worked on the Tales of Symphonia OVAs, wi...

Yozakura Quartet – Hana no Uta – 10 Filed under First Impressions, Yozakura Quartet by Asobi | 2 Comments 「ロクノイチ 後」 (Roku no Ichi ) "One of Six After" It's the last of the "lite" episodes that pretty much made up half of Yozakura Quartet, and now ...

Thanks to Dengeki Online we have even more footage of the upcoming Madoka Magica: Battle Pentagram action game. The PS Vita game features an original story under the supervision of Magica Quartet, and is set to arrive in Japan on December 19.

First 'Super Sonico' Anime Commercial Debuts Posted by Chris Beveridge December 13, 2013 at 01:30 PM Super Sonico Pony Canyon is doing their part to raise awareness for the January 6th premiere of Super Sonico with a new commercial that debuted to...

Yumi's Odd Odyssey, known in Japan as Farewell, Umihara Kawase, has a release window in North America. Natsume will release the game in January 2014, the publisher announced this morning. Yumi's Odd Odyssey is, in a sense, similar to the side-sc...

Nintendo is getting ready to unleash the Pok&eacute;mon Bank service on December 27, and a new video highlights some of the uses of the downloadable software. The features, via Nintendo's press release: &middot; Deposit, withdraw, and manage up to...

For my money the real killer Strider jams came with the weirdo music of the arcade version and its ports, but the NES game had some memorable tunes, too. Thankfully the upcoming 2014 Strider game pulls from the whole of the platformer series in co...

In Japan, every year is marked with a single kanji character as chosen by a national vote. The kanji is meant to represent situations and global or domestic events that took place during a given year and is announced on December 12 by the head mon...

Kill la Kill's Nakashima pens April 19 movie teased in 1st trailer The official website for the Crayon Shin-chan films began streaming the first teaser trailer for the latest installment, Eiga Crayon Shin-chan: Gachinko!

The Japan Racing Association (JRA) unveiled the second round of its collaboration with the Attack on Titan anime on Wednesday with the next leg of its online horse-racing game. The "Attack on Grand Prix" event turns the members of the anti-Titan f...

「決戦！敵の基地」 (Kessen! Teki no Kichi) "Final Battle! At the Enemy Base" Samurai Flamenco has turned into one of those shows that I have no expectations for anymore. There's some good and some bad, but overall – I'd agree with Akira, it is entertaining.

A brand new Pokemon movie has just been announced and it will be titled Pokemon XY: Cocoon of Destruction. A leaked scan from the latest issue of Corocoro Comics sheds some light on the upcoming Pokeflick, and it will focus on the legendary Pokemo...

OFFICIAL 'SAILOR MOON' BRA AND PANTY COLLECTION I know what I want for Christmas. Lingerie retailer Peach John has teamed with Neoko Takeuchi for a collection of official Sailor Moon intimates releasing in late February 2014.

Dec. 13. 2013Whole story of the new song of five-girls dance & vocal group "Tokyo girls' Style" was unveiled. It was nice idea and got a good evaluation to releasing teaser movies little by little and doing Non-On-Air music download service, and f...

live / DVD / release / L'Arc~en~Ciel This is a big announcement for all Fans for L'arc en Ciel! Finally there will be a new release - and a really big one! ! ! Sooo they will release a L'Aive Blu-ray BOX including 18 CDs and 18 DVDs in total - and...

FUNimation is looking to draw out the casting announcements for the anticipated release of Psych0-Pass by doing an announcement a day. They're kicking it off today with the casting for the character of Shion Karanomori, who will be played by Lydia...

Namco Bandai Games announced on Tuesday (10 December 2013) that it will be releasing Sword Art Online: Hollow Fragment on 24 April 2014. Available on the PS Vita, the game will retail for 6170yen (US$60.

Recommended Jpop♂ Reading: December 13, 2013 Thennary's Picks Hey! Say! JUMP "Ride With Me" Short PV Ver – aramatheydidnt HSJ are here to prove that they are no longer the "cute" group of Johnny's, and with some of their hairstyles that isn't too ...